Sunday, December 11, 2011

Its Sunday & time for bulk cooking planning! So since I've been off at the conference last week & am now exhausted, my lovely, wonderful husband (The Happy Nurse) is going to be tackling the cooking since he is off tomorrow! Hooray Happy Nurse!! (cheer cheer!)

1) Banana Bread made into Barsfrom Ann Esselstyn (Prevent & Reverse Heart Disease). I already made this today using Barley Flour (which is awesomely high protein and high fiber). I also substituted 2 Tbl Agave Nector for the 2/3 cup of honey or sugar in the original recipe. I made it into a long loaf/bar (doubling the recipe) in our 9x11 casserole dish because we don't have a bread pan! (going to have to put that on the Christmas list!)

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6 comments:

Have you tried the Happy Herbivore Granola Bars from the new cookbook? Delicious (and easy) for an on the go bar. It calls for chocolate chips, but I use raisins instead. And I think it calls for agave, but I use brown rice syrup.

Ooooo Meridith! Great idea! Every time I see chocolate chips in a recipe I tend to move quickly on to the next recipe! :-) But what a fantastic idea to add raisins instead! We will try that for next week!

Why don't I think of these things?! Oh, I know--because I have awesome readers like you to help me figure this all out! Thanks!

I'm a "mean" mom, so anytime I can cut sugar out I take advantage of it. :) I swear every single store is handing out those tiny candy canes....I just cringe and let my 4 year old daughter have the treat, knowing that we just can't indulge at home. Oh well.

Christy - good luck with the no sugar. It is tough the first few days/weeks, but so totally worth it. I was eating 3-4 pounds of chocolate licorice in a week (really horrible, I know), so I know the hold sugar can have you on. I cut sugar cold turkey after watching Food Inc a few years ago. Now even certain fruits seem too sweet for me, which I can't even believe myself. It's nice to be in control again. If I want to indulge it's a choice and I can enjoy it without going overboard and/or feeling so guilty afterward. Most of the time though, I just have a handful of raisins and call it good.

Oh and I feel so much better physically and emotionally about myself, which is the best reward of all. Although, my dentist is probably disappointed.... :)

@Christy, Good for you!! Keep it up! We're all rooting for you!:-) I agree with Meridith completely (thank you Meridith for being such an awesome supporter & sharing your experience, strength and hope with all of us!).

From my experience, the first week is pretty awful--I actually had a low grade headache for two weeks at first! And I wasn't a big sweets person to begin with! But once that was over, WOW my body began to feel amazing :-)

The best tip I can give you is one my sponsor gave me--eat a piece of fruit with EVERY meal (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner, Snack). As you stop eating sugar you will feel deprived & for me, the best way to combat that was by eating the fruit (much healthier for us!)

I don't eat that much fruit now but for the first few sugar-free months it was critical. You would be surprised how much sugar is in everything! I'm not crazy strict though--I will eat products with sugar in them ONLY if sugar or any sweetener is not in the first FIVE ingredients in the item. Perfectionism isn't the purpose, progress is. So if you have some issues, don't worry, just keep going. Use that fruit!

Meridith--I don't think you are a "mean" mom! I think you are a fantastic Mom because you are actually giving your daughter the best gift anyone can give--health.

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I'm a Rehab MD (Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation): I treat patients recovering from a large spectrum of disease or injury ranging from stroke to chronic pain. I love being a doctor!
Over the past four years I've tackled my own health issues--obesity and chronic pain--by changing my lifestyle one day at a time. Nearly 100lbs lost later, I know how hard it is to surrender and make a change in what we eat because I HAVE DONE IT MYSELF! I believe we all deserve to live happy, energetic lives well beyond our 90's. I also believe that dream is 100% possible if we change the way we eat and how we live.

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